APA-NIOSH Interdisciplinary Conference on Work, Stress, and Health

APA-NIOSH Interdisciplinary Conference on Work, Stress, and Health

Work, Stress, and Health '99: Organization of Work in a Global Economy

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Preliminary Conference Agenda

Wednesday, March 10, 1999
Continuing Education Workshops

Thursday, March 11, 1999

Opening Ceremonies

Conference welcome and opening remarks by:
Gwendolyn Puryear Keita, PhD, Associate Executive Director, Public Interest Directorate, American Psychological Association;
Steven L. Sauter, PhD, Chief, Applied Psychology & Ergonomics Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Addresses by:
Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH, Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health;
Raymond D. Fowler, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, American Psychological Association

Keynote Address:
Ray Marshall, PhD, Research Associate, University of Texas; former Secretary of Labor under Carter Administration

Posthumous Tribute to Sidney Cobb, MD, and John R.P. (Jack) French, Jr., PhD
given by Joseph Hurrell, PhD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
and Stanislav V. Kasl, PhD, Yale University

Concurrent Sessions
(please note that titles and authors of individual papers within sessions will be posted in November)

Session 1: "Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease"
Session 2: "Monitoring Risks, Consequences, and Prevention of Occupational Stress"
Session 3: "International Trends in Worker Compensation for Occupational Stress"
Session 4: "Work Changes in the Public Sector in Relation to Health"
Session 5: "Work, Family, and Community"
Session 6: "Organizational Interventions to Reduce Exposure to HIV"

Session 7: "From Regulation and Policy to Practice: Organizational Approaches to Stress"
Session 8: "Reconsidering Burnout in a Global Economy"
Session 9: "The Stressful Workplace, Mental and Physical Health, and the Problem of Prevention"
Session 10: "Conducting Work Organization Interventions: An IRS, NIOSH, and NTEU Collaborative Model"
Session 11: "Union Perspectives on Job Stress"
Session 12: "One Corporation's Approach to 'Stress': SmithKline Beecham"

Session 13: "Stress in Health Care Occupations"
Session 14 "Worker Power, Health, and Accommodation in a Global Economy"
Session 15: "The Nature and Development of Occupational Health Psychology in Europe: Implications for Other Regions"
Session 16: "Psychosocial and Ergonomic Stressors at Work"
Session 17: "Policy and Research Perspectives on Family-Supportive Workplaces"
Session 18: "Review of Psychometric Performance of Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) Scales in an Internationally Comparative Perspective"

Session 19: "Underemployment, Stress, and Health"
Session 20: "Gender, Work, and Health: Contemporary Issues"
Session 21: "Development of Graduate-Level Curricula in Occupational Health Psychology"
Session 22: "Work Organization and Musculoskeletal Disorders"
Session 23: "Flexible Work: Policies and Practices in Europe"
Session 24: "Assessment of Occupational Stress"

Conference Reception, Maryland Science Center

Friday, March 12, 1999

Concurrent Sessions

Session 25: "Measuring the Adverse Consequences of Work"
Session 26: "International Collaboration of JOBS: Lessons from Finland, Israel, and China"
Session 27: "Psychological Aspects of Occupational Health"
Session 28: "Organizational Fairness"
Session 29: "Prevention of Physical Environment Stressors in Offices: A Multidisciplinary Approach"
Session 30: "Social Policy and Absenteeism"

Session 31: "Integrating Work Life and Family Life"
Session 32: "Fatigue at Work"
Session 33: Stress Management Strategies at Work in Japan"
Session 34: "Behavior-based Safety: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice"
Session 35: "Findings from a $20 Million Statewide Work & Health Initiative"
Session 36: "Organizational Downsizing: Is it Justifiable and From Whose Viewpoint?"

Session 37: "Health and Stress-Related Outcomes of Shiftwork"
Session 38: "Effects of Downsizing on Worker Health"
Session 39: "Sexual Harassment and Workplace Violence"
Session 40: "Musculoskeletal Disorders: Psychosocial Mechanisms"
Session 41: "Job Stress and Health in Japan: Baseline Findings from Japan Work Stress and Health Cohort Study Group"
Session 42: "Preventing Stress, Improving Work, Health and Productivity: Eleven European Case Studies"

Session 43: "Psychophysiological Responses to Job Stress"
Session 44: "The SWS-International Survey of Work Stress and Mental Health"
Session 45: "Stress, Depression, and Productivity"
Session 46: "Lessons Learned from Stress Management Interventions"
Session 47: "Overwork: Causes and Consequences"
Session 48: "Workload, Stress, and Risks for Injury in Hazardous Work Environments"

Interactive Poster Sessions

Session 1: "Stress in Different Occupations 1"
Session 2: "Personality, Coping, and Job Stress"
Session 3: "Job Stress Interventions"
Session 4: "Impact of Downsizing and Job Change"
Session 5: "Organizational and Methodological Issues"

Saturday, March 13, 1999

Interactive Poster Sessions

Session 6: "Job Demand and Health"
Session 7: "Occupational Burnout"
Session 8: "Impact of Job Stress and Family Well-Being"
Session 9: "Stress in Different Occupations 2"
Session 10: "Overload, Fatigue, and Work Schedules"
Session 11: "NORA: National Occupational Research Agenda"

Concurrent Sessions

Session 49: "Non-standard Work Arrangements"
Session 50: "Lean Production and Worker Health"
Session 51: "Changing Work Organization: Strategies for Survival and Success"
Session 52: "Healthy Work: The Role of Organizational Culture and Management Practices"
Session 53: "The New Organizational Reality: A Changing Workforce and Employment Relationship"
Session 54:"Job Stress and Healthy Work Organizations: Perspectives from Japanese Culture"

Session 55: "Interventions to Reduce Job Stressors"
Session 56: "International Occupational Stress Research: Cross Cultural Aspects"
Session 57: "Occupational Stressors & Stress Symptomatology of Emergency Workers"
Session 58: "Beyond Drug-testing: Recent Innovations in Workplace Substance Use Prevention"
Session 59: "Summary of Evidence and Review of New Methodological Directions by Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) Scales"

Interactive Closing Plenary
"Work Organization and Health: Directions for Research and Interventions"

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